2003
Bennett Voyles' retrospective on the apolitical Nineties, and the fate of democratic electronic activism without content.
A discussion of net.activism, net.tactics, and strategy featuring Bruce Simon, Geert Lovink, Chris Carter, and Ricardo Dominguez.
The story of an activist website's shutdown, as told by DeeDee Halleck, with interstitial e-mails.
On the occasion of a new novel by Joseph McElroy and the Overlook Press reissue of McElroy's earlier work, Andrew Walser initiates a revaluation.
Further on McElroy and a novel that reflects the mind's helter-skelter workings while (for the protagonist) creating many occasions for avoidance.
Stuart Moulthrop re-opens the debate on the "electronic book" and its continued marginalization vis-a vis print.
Shells, Tents, Slaps, Shocks: Steffen Hantke works slowly, from within, to get at McElroy's nonlinear narrative.
In between bubble and burst, e-commerce drew much of its content from donated labor. Tiziana Terranova questions just how "free" such labor has proved in practice.
Sven Philipp on Cosmopolis and what seems to be a new stage in the critical reception of DeLillo.
Ralph Berry on Avant-Garde fiction and the future of the page.
Lance Olsen continues the FC/2 authors' discussion of Carole Maso's AVA and adds some bits on Laird Hunt, Mark Z Danielewski, Judd Morrissey and Lori Talley, and other recent U.S. avant-gardists.
Further on Gertrude Stein, Carole Maso, and the avant garde in U.S. fiction from Lidia Yuknavitch.
Picking up Lance Olsen's theme of thinking as digestion, Michael Martone chews on what's Avant Garde about Baltimore.
A review of Writing Machines, building on a number of the book's earlier reviewers in ebr and elsewhere.
Regarding a monumental work on race, time, and classical music that does not lose sight of individual, localized lives.
Jim Rosenberg sends a shot of grammar straight across the bow of Nick Montfort's controversial Cybertext review, adding volume to a volley already in progress.
Over 800 pages, the New Media Reader does not exhaust its subject; it even sets the stage for a companion volume.
Form and platform are bridged in Stephanie Strickland's "V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una," a book with two beginings and a website to boot. Chris Funkhouser tests the load limit of this innovative, precarious structure.
Rob Wittig looks at one of the earliest "Weblogs," and finds there a persisting model for serial e-fiction and an interaction no less compelling than the literary correspondence between Henry Miller and Anais Nin.